Nakamichi, now there was a company that knew how to engineer equipment to extraordinary standards!! I mean the real Nakamichi company, not the various shells that have paid to use the name in recent years. When I consider the absolute quality and precision, the wonderful tactile feel, of their equipment it makes me kin of sad to see much modern equipment (although it has to be kept in mind that the real Nakamichi stuff was never cheap and their top end products were seriously expensive.
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Crosley Releases New Cassette Deck
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Nakamichi, now there was a company that knew how to engineer equipment to extraordinary standards!! I mean the real Nakamichi company, not the various shells that have paid to use the name in recent years. When I consider the absolute quality and precision, the wonderful tactile feel, of their equipment it makes me kin of sad to see much modern equipment (although it has to be kept in mind that the real Nakamichi stuff was never cheap and their top end products were seriously expensive.
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watchnerd
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Wonderful timing! Mariah Carey's new album is available on cassette as well as CD, download, and LP!
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The soundtrack to the new Queen movie is also being released on cassette:
restorer-john
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I'll just keep sitting on my considerable stock of NOS blank cassettes. I smile when I see the prices of sealed originals.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TDK-MA-...h=item48a3aa5d20:g:N-cAAOSwevZaleUx:rk:2:pf:1
I still have recordings we made in 1984-1986 when my best mate and I spent entire days making perfect LP copies and CD transfers. I've played many of them recently on the original decks they were recorded on (after restoration) and the recordings are still indistinguishable from the day they were made. Many are so good, you are hard pressed to hear differences to the CD or LP source.
All were made on TDK-ADX/ARX or higher, Dolby C, tweaked EQ and Bias, MPX defeated on either high quality 2 head or discrete 3 head decks. Each tape was marked with the deck it was recorded on. Even back then when I was still a teenager, I had about 8 cassette decks!
The ADX/ARX, SA-X and MA-X/X-G were the best tapes ever made in my opinion. I was never much a fan of HX-S, SA or MA. Nothing much from Denon, Sony, Maxell, Thats, or BASF floated my boat. I have some very nice late production Fujis from Japan which are obscenely good.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TDK-MA-...h=item48a3aa5d20:g:N-cAAOSwevZaleUx:rk:2:pf:1
I still have recordings we made in 1984-1986 when my best mate and I spent entire days making perfect LP copies and CD transfers. I've played many of them recently on the original decks they were recorded on (after restoration) and the recordings are still indistinguishable from the day they were made. Many are so good, you are hard pressed to hear differences to the CD or LP source.
All were made on TDK-ADX/ARX or higher, Dolby C, tweaked EQ and Bias, MPX defeated on either high quality 2 head or discrete 3 head decks. Each tape was marked with the deck it was recorded on. Even back then when I was still a teenager, I had about 8 cassette decks!
The ADX/ARX, SA-X and MA-X/X-G were the best tapes ever made in my opinion. I was never much a fan of HX-S, SA or MA. Nothing much from Denon, Sony, Maxell, Thats, or BASF floated my boat. I have some very nice late production Fujis from Japan which are obscenely good.
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I had a Sony Walkman Professional, anyone remember those? That was an early example of mobile high quality music, it was very bulky (even when new it was a lot bulkier than regular walkmen) but it offered performance on a par with a full sized cassette deck. I took mine around the world multiple times, it had that build quality of Sony high end products, it was a lovely thing.
restorer-john
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Beautiful units. The later ones were Quartz PLL DD with pancake motors for supply and takeup. I've got some of the Marantz 'pressman' style units someplace.
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The new cassettes made by RTM, using their SM900 RTR formula:
Datasheet
https://www.recordingthemasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOX-C60-TECHNICAL-DATASHEET.pdf
Datasheet
https://www.recordingthemasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/FOX-C60-TECHNICAL-DATASHEET.pdf
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OMG!
I very rarely stream, I converted my CD collection to FLAC which I loaded onto my tablet, phone and digital audio player. Several hundred CDs in CD quality sound, instantly accessible at home or on the move, being able to take my collection away when I travel, being able to use these devices as a hi-fi source etc, I just find it all remarkable compared to not that long ago.
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What cave have you been living in?
It's already back.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/5/9409563/reel-to-reel-tape-retro-audio-trend
Sure but also obsolete. Something for home decoration.
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